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Simple Engineering

By landonthompson
  • 1440

    Printing Press

    Printing Press
    Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, invented the printing press around 1440. The printing press used movable type to produce pages of text at a much faster rate than hand printing.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing the telephone and receiving the first US patent for it in 1876.

  • Light Bulb

    Light Bulb
    Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the first commercially successful incandescent light bulb in 1879. Edison's team created a light bulb with a carbonized cotton thread filament that lasted 14.5 hours.

  • Automobile

    Automobile
    The first practical modern automobile is widely considered to be the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which was created in 1886 by German engineer Karl Benz.

  • Air Conditioning

    Air Conditioning
    The first modern air conditioner was invented in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier, a skilled engineer who began experimenting with the laws of humidity control. This launched an industry that would fundamentally improve the way we live and work, allowing large crowds of people to congregate in comfort.

  • Airplane

    Airplane
    Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the airplane in 1903. Their Wright Flyer was the first heavier-than-air, powered aircraft to achieve sustained flight with a pilot on board.

  • Television

    Television
    In 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator, demonstrated the first working television system in London. This was an amazing breakthrough in technology, paving the way for a new and exciting industry that is still flourishing today.

  • GPS Satellite

    GPS Satellite
    The satellites were originally put into orbit for military use, but they were made available for civilian use in the 1980s. GPS works in any weather conditions, 24 hours a day. GPS is now widely used in mobile phones and receivers that can calculate information such as location, speed and distance to destination, making accurate travel to events a lot easier.

  • Internet

    Internet
    The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and was the only way to access the internet at this time. It opened up a new world of possibilities and access to data and information.

  • WiFi

    WiFi
    Vic Hayes has been called the "father of Wi-Fi" because he chaired the IEEE committee that created the 802.11 standards that would make WiFi feasible in 1997. WiFi is now widely adopted around the world and often essential in events, aiding networking, streaming of content and sharing data.